The heat here is really making me sick!! Not kidding!

[krazyaboutkatz]

We're also having a heat wave here too and I don't have any AC either. I have a ceiling fan in the dining room and anther floor fan in the living room that have been on all day to help circulate the air and keep my cats cool. It's still about 100 degees in the shade and about 90 degrees in my condo. It's supposed to be even hotter tomorrow. I hate the heat and even though we usually have a dry heat it's still way too hot for me.

[Lizzie]

I, too, am sorry you are going through this hellish heat, Kirsten. The combination of high heat and humidity really does make you feel that you are not breathing in any air. Do you have plants in your office to help with the air quality?

It's in the nineties in the Seattle area now and today's set to peak before it "drops" into the upper eighties. Over the weekend, I've tried to sleep during the mid-afternoon into evening so that I could do things at night when it's cooler. But even during the night, moving furniture and rugs, vacuuming and scrubbing out litter boxes makes me drip with sweat. After a brief sleep, I got up at 5am to try to get more done, including cooking some pasta for salads - but I couldn't bear to warm up the house to any degree so I guess it's bean and veg salads today. I also tried to do some weeding at about 7am but got overheated very quickly and gave up. Ah! A slight breeze just fanned over my arms from the window and I could feel myself inhale with pleasure and smile from the brief relief.

The kittens are racing around now, using up their pent-up energy. By this afternoon, as the sun pounds into the house, they will be stretched out trying to get as much of their bodies exposed to air as possible. One of my upstairs cats is a black long-hair and she feels the heat intensely.

I've managed to avoid the heat enough that I haven't become ill from it, though twisting my sleep/wake cycle around so much is making me feel pretty rotten. I have A/C in my car and at work so I'm lucky in that. In fact, my workplace can be so chilled that I keep a winter coat there and wore it a few times last week.

Ugh! I just had to close my window because a neighbor went out onto her deck to smoke. She's not that close, and I have a high hedge, but it's an unpleasant shock when you are taking deep breaths of relatively cool fresh air.